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`FW: IPR2022-01197 (U.S. Patent No. 6,816,809)- Request for Reply to POPR
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`From: Zhong, Annita <HZhong@irell.com>
`Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2022 1:19 PM
`To: Blaine.Hackman@WolfGreenfield.com; Trials <Trials@USPTO.GOV>
`Cc: RGiunta‐PTAB@WolfGreenfield.com; BHackman‐PTAB@WolfGreenfield.com; Gregory F. Corbett
`<Gregory.Corbett@WolfGreenfield.com>; Proctor, Amy <AProctor@irell.com>; Sheasby, Jason <JSheasby@irell.com>;
`sobrien@hilgersgraben.com
`Subject: RE: IPR2022‐01197 (U.S. Patent No. 6,816,809)‐ Request for Reply to POPR
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`Dear Board,
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`Petitioner has not circulated the email to Patent Owner beforehand, so Patent Owner is unable to insert its position. In
`particular, Patent Owner asked Petitioner why it believed the issues could not be addressed by existing briefing and
`Petitioner declined to explain its reasoning. Patent Owner submits that based especially on the email below, Petitioner
`appears to have already addressed the relevant issues in the petition and there are therefore no good cause to file a
`reply.
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`Respectfully,
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`H. Annita Zhong
`Irell & Manella LLP
`1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 900
`Los Angeles, CA 90067‐4276
`Telephone: (310) 203‐7183
`Fax: (310) 556‐5385
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`From: Blaine.Hackman@WolfGreenfield.com <Blaine.Hackman@WolfGreenfield.com>
`Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2022 10:08 AM
`To: 'Trials' <Trials@USPTO.GOV>
`Cc: RGiunta‐PTAB@WolfGreenfield.com; BHackman‐PTAB@WolfGreenfield.com; Gregory F. Corbett
`<Gregory.Corbett@WolfGreenfield.com>; Zhong, Annita <HZhong@irell.com>; Proctor, Amy <AProctor@irell.com>;
`Sheasby, Jason <JSheasby@irell.com>; sobrien@hilgersgraben.com
`Subject: IPR2022‐01197 (U.S. Patent No. 6,816,809)‐ Request for Reply to POPR
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`Dear Honorable Board,
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`Petitioner Google respectfully requests a conference call to seek authorization to file a six‐page Reply to the Patent
`Owner Preliminary Response (“POPR”) in IPR2022‐01197 to refute:
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`1. the POPR’s argument that neither Ogawa nor Vea discloses hardware based metering because their hardware
`components are reliant on characteristics of software running on the processor (POPR, 11 and 43‐44), which is
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`inconsistent with the specification’s disclosure of a hardware based metering device that is reliant on particular
`software (a modified operating system) running on the processor (e.g., ’809 Patent at 4:36‐57, claim 4; see also
`Petition at 5, 22, 56, 63);
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`2. the POPR’s assertion that because Ogawa’s counter 4 does not stop counting in response to the CLR1 signal
`when the program stops running Ogawa does not increment a counter based on the time the processor is busy
`as claimed (POPR, 16, 24), where the Petition explained that the value of counter 4 is loaded into register 5 in
`response to CLR1 and that “the ‘content’ of register 5 indicates ‘the effective processing time of the [CPU] 1’”
`(Petition, 12) when the periodic program is the only program running on the processor (Petition, 14);
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`3. the POPR’s allegation that an EP counterpart of Vea being cited in an IDS but never commented on by the
`examiner is a basis for discretionary denial under § 325 (d), where this argument is inconsistent with multiple
`Board cases Google proposes to cite and further ignores that Vea was used to reject claims of similar scope to
`those in the ’809 Patent in a continuation thereof (Petition at 41‐42, n9 (citing Ex. 1014)); and
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`4. the POPR’s mischaracterization of the Petition as pointing to a data consumer that calculates CPU utilization as
`the alleged data usage provider (POPR, 51), where the Petition instead identified Vea’s data usage provider as a
`system component that stores the output of Vea’s frequency counter and makes its “history” available to a
`different component to perform CPU utilization calculations (Petition, 54).
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`Petitioner is prepared to demonstrate on the call that good cause exists for the Reply. If Petitioner’s request is granted,
`Petitioner would not oppose Patent Owner being granted a same‐length sur‐reply.
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`The parties have met and conferred and Patent Owner opposes the request. Petitioner’s counsel is available the week
`of November 7 at the Board’s convenience. Patent Owner’s counsel stated they “may be available Tuesday and
`Wednesday between 7‐9 a.m. PT.”
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`Respectfully submitted,
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`Blaine M. Hackman, Reg. No. 67,479
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`Blaine Hackman
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